pText is a pure python library to read, write and manipulate PDF documents. It represents a PDF document as a JSON-like datastructure of nested lists, dictionaries and primitives. Extract and edit metadata, extract and edit text and images, add annotations.
Seems like it would be useful for a large-scale indexing effort.
Drafts of the ebook Pentesting Hardware: A Practical Guide by Mark Carney.
A book that teaches the basics of reverse engineering software. CC-BY-SA. Has its own Git repo. Available in multiple languages.
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This is a collection of material to learn autarky 99 (economic self-reliance / self-supply) for individuals, households and villages. All materials relevant for that can be included here, as long as they are more comprehensive than the ubiquitous article format. Only material that is free to download is of interest here (with a few exceptions). Here is what we found so far, and you’re welcome to extend it (just edit away, this is a wiki).
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Fan-made splatbooks to play Ghostbusters using the Savage Worlds system.
Appropriate Technology for Small and Subsistence Farms
PO Box 413, Veneta, OR 97487, USA
Free Downloads
All I Tech designs are public domain, a gift to humanity
These I Tech files are also located at University of California, Davis
krop is a simple graphical tool to crop the pages of PDF files. Turn double-page scans into two single-page image files. Relies on PyQT, python-poppler-qt5 and PyPDF2. Can even be run without actually installing it.
An official archive all all (and I do mean ALL) Star Frontiers materials from back in the day. Includes 2001 and 2010!
EBMUD recommends customers take some simple steps to be prepared for an emergency. Downloadable documents at this page.
Textricator is a tool for extracting text from PDFs and generating structured data (CSV or JSON). It can even work on OCR'ed documents. Describe what the document's contents look like with a YAML file and it'll extract the data using those fields. Can also be used as a Java library.
The CERT concept was developed and implemented by the Los Angeles City Fire Department in 1985. The Whittier Narrows earthquake in 1987 underscored the area-wide threat of a major disaster in California. Further, it confirmed the need for training civilians to meet their immediate needs.
Usborne children's coding books for a new generation. There are some classics in here, too.
The Internet Archive has the complete run of the comic book UFO available for download.
Don't know if it has an API or not.
Steve Jackson Games' official online store.